The snowdrifts and the sauna
Have this in common:
Not only that the sauna is set amid the snowdrifts,
Nor only that if you stay with them too long
And there fall asleep, you will die,
But that each offers
The quietest, most gentle death,
A deadly doze, a peaceful passing,
Gentle, alluring, so alluring that it lures
Not your conscious mind,
not the heart which can refuse,
But the part beneath that –
Isn’t it just so nice
To sleep here
Forever?
Wake!
Move!
You must be going on.